INSECTS 



Lozotxnia xylostcana. Common generally 



— rosana. Common generally 

 Ditula angustiorana. Darlington 

 Ptycholoraa lecheana. Common generally 

 Notocelia udmanniana. Recorded only from 



Durham and Hartlepool, but probably com- 

 mon generally 



Pardia tripunctana. Swarms in gardens 



Spilonota roborana. Hartlepool 



— rosa;colana. Darlington and Hartlepool 



— trimaculana. Common among elm 



— amctnana. On the coast among Rosa spinosis- 



sima 

 Lithographiacompoliliana. Common among willows 



— cinerana. Darlington 



— nisella. Larva; common in sallow catkins. 



— pcnkleriana. Among birch 



Phlacodes tetraquetrana. Abundant among birch 



— crenana. Mr. Sang found this insect at 



Waskerley 

 Poedisca piceana. Wolsingham, High Force, and 

 Ihorp Bulmer near Hartlepool. Probably in 

 other marshy places 



— stabilana. Hell Kettles near Darlington 



— solandriana. Common among birch 



— opthalmicana. On black poplar in Castle Eden 



Dene 

 Catoptria scopoliana. Common among thistles 



— fulvana. Hesleden Dene 



— hohenwarthiana. Generally distributed, but not 



common 



— expallidana. Darlington 



Halonota bimaculana. Generally distributed, but 

 not common 



— trigeminana. Seaton Carew 



— cirsiana. Among thistles and centaurea. 



— scutulana. Among thistles and centaurea. 



— grandaevana. Confined as a British species to 



South Shields and Hartlepool. I believe it is 

 extinct at South Shields, but it still occurs 

 about Hartlepool 



— brunnichiana. Plentiful amongst coltsfoot. A 



curious variety, without the white spot on 

 the forewings, was common in a quarry in 

 Hesleden Dene a few years ago. The colts- 

 foot disappeared there and the insect with it, 

 nor have I seen the variety since 



— tetragonana. Very local. Wolsingham, Darling- 



ton, Hesleden Dene. The larva: is said to be 

 found under moss at the roots of beech 

 trees. Mr. Gardner bred a specimen from 

 a larva found on Lotus corniculatus 



— turbidana. ' Teeside from Coniscliffe to Black- 



weU: (J. Sang) 



— inopiana. Taken at Seaton Carew in 1 874. by 



the late John Sang 



— fcenella. Hesleden Dene, once or twice 

 Ditrorampha pctivcrclla. Darlington and Hartlepool 



— poll tana. Eggleston, Upper Teesdale 



— alpinana. Mr. Sang took this southern species 



at Coniscliffe 



— tanaceti. Coniscnffe, Darlington, and near 



Hartlepool 



— plumbagana. Hartlepool 



— acuminitana. Coniscliffe Moor, Darftngton, and 



Hartlepool 



Dicrorampha consortana. Darlington 

 Coccyx hyrciniana. Coniscliffe Moor 

 Capua ochraceana. Eggleston, Upper Teesdale 

 Cartella bilunana. Hesleden Dene 



ANCHYLOPERID^ 



H edy a pay k u 1 1 i a n a . Wolsingham and Hesleden Dene 



— ocellana. Darlington and Coniscliffe Moor 



— dealbana. Dinsdalc Wood and Neasham Lane 



near Darlington, and in Hesleden Dene 



— neglectana. 



— aceriana. Gas lamps, Darlington, by Mr. Sang 



in i860 



— trimaculana. I know of no record for this 



insect and never met with it, but it is cer- 

 tain to occur 

 Stcg.moptycha najvana. Castle Eden Dene and 

 Cockcrton near Darlington 



— geminana. Wolsingham 



Anchylopera mitterbacheriana. Gibside, and prob- 

 ably elsewhere 



— biarcuana. Winch Bridge, Upper Teesdale, near 



Darlington, and probably elsewhere 



— myrtillana. 



— lundana. South Shields, Sunderland, Barnard 



Castle, and Hartlepool, probably evoiywhere 



— paludana. Meyrick limits the range of this 



species to the fens of Norfolk and Cam- 

 bridge, but Mr. Sang took it at Hell Kettles 

 near Darlington 



— comptana. Chiefly a chalk down species, but 



extending on the west coast to Cheshire. 

 Mr. Sang took it in a lane near Darlington 

 in 1859, ^"t never met with it again. It 

 may only have been a stray specimen 



— unguicella. On the moors in the west. Has 



been taken at Wolsingham and on the Tees- 

 dale Moors 

 Bactra lanceolana. Abundant among rushes 

 Argyrotoza conwayana. Generally among privet, 



but not a common insect 

 Dictyopteryx contaminana. Very common by 

 hedge sides 



— loeflingiana. Lanes and woods 



CrcEsia bergmanniana. Common everywhere 

 among rose 



— forskaleana. Common among maple 



— holmiana. Generally common 



Hemerosia rheediella. Not scarce, has been re- 

 corded at Sunderland, Darlington, and Hartlepool 



PERONEID^ 



Chcimatophila mixtana. Rather common in 

 heathery places. Is recorded from Waskerley, 

 Wolsingham, and the Teesdale Moors 



Oxygrapha litcrana. Mr. Sang took this at E^les- 

 ton and near Darlington ; I took a single 

 specimen at Hartlepool, and Mr. Gardner 

 another near the mouth of Castle Eden Dene 



Peronea schallcriana. Generally common. 



— pcrplexana. Of this comparatively new species 



Mr. Gardner took two at Greatham, near 

 Hartlepool 



— commariana. Mr. Gardner took a single 



specimen of this on the Teesdale Moors 



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